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Happy as a Clam Digger

American Impressionists treated the subject of work as a thing of beautyStephen May

‘You Pick It Up and Make Art Out of It’

Thornton Dial’s wildly inventive mixed-media creations, made of everything from dolls to tree bark to old clothes to rusty machine parts, have crossed over from the outsider art context to the mainstream with a major show at the Museum of Fine Arts in HoustonEdward M. Gomez

International News

Moscow An art dealer is exonerated Spotlight Miguel Zugaza: Building a bigger Prado London Britain seeks restitution solution Paris Louvre to get a “flying carpet” Kraków A factory made museum Straubing, Germany A window into Dürer

Art Market

New York Revenues on the rise at Christie’s and Sotheby’s, Pop go the Levi’s Beverly Hills A new market for Henri Martin Reno, Nevada Collectors go west, bid high Spotlight Dick Solomon: “We don’t have to be stodgy”

The first retrospective in 30 years devoted to Andrew Wyeth is a sign of increasing interest in the artist on the part of critics and curators. And it may help answer a perennial question: how good a painter is he?. Read More